Its always risky looking too far out, but it looks very bad right now.
You are not going to like it. This is why O will make sure we go off the cliff, which is an easy job for him because so many on R side are working to make sure they get blamed.
1) No one tries for Bohners job Speaker because they don't want to be in that seat leading to the 2014 midterms, they leave him as the 'blame goat'.
2) taxes go up, unemployment comp runs out, FICA... stock market tanks ,....all hell breaks loose.
3) GOP in house who is/are already getting the blame has the heat turned up on them at home by angry voters
4) Bohner EVENTUALLY takes Os terms of surrender to his House, he gets just enough R votes to pass it with Pelosi Dems, the others take the ‘principled’ stand. He claim she got something in return, a fig leaf.
5) Republicans lose House to Pelosi next midterm in 2 years, Reid picks up more seats, Democrats own DC again in 2015,
6) Obama completes his mission in his last two years, America is never the same.
But maybe todays voters get mad at Dems in four years after #6, but by then millions of new dreamers can vote Dem after immigration reform,
But it wasnt all a waste, this house passed 33 symbolic repeals of O-care. That made a difference,, right?
Fools!
Llast year 2011 this GOP house took on three MAJOR confrontations with O and they got beat up on all of them, a fourth could be the election.
But unlike this one before hand most freepers were claiming that they would be wins because the voters would fall behind them. This one is different than that.
Most comments I read on this standoff the posters say they think that Republicans will be blamed for anything that goes wrong in this fight, and by coincidence, that is what Rush is telling them too, but its still full steam ahead,
I read lots of beer bravery :”I don’t care if Republicans get blamed and lose the election, its principle” lately. SO I made up a list of Os and Pelosis to-do list after taking full control of the congress in 2015:
Repeal DOMA (gays get federal marriage benefits)
Immigration reform (give poor illegal’s the vote(for Dem), and free Obama-care, and tax credits)
Gun Safety laws (your gun can hold the max five bullets and it costs $500 in taxes to register)
Obama care fixes (raise the uninsured fine and make it more progressive)
Retirement savings reform( remove tax deferment for 401Ks except if it invests in government bonds)
Reproductive freedom (Obama-care expanded to all (free) abortions for any reason)
Climate Change (Cap and Trade taxes)